Jordan Peele's "Us" Sets Box Office Records With $70 Million Opening
Jordan Peele’s new horror film Us hit theaters on Friday, March 22, and, unsurprisingly, it’s already breaking box office records.
Variety reports that Us raked in over $70 million at U.S. box offices during its opening weekend, making it the No. 2 opening of the year, after Captain Marvel.
But that’s not the only impressive title awarded to the film; with its ticket sales, Us now holds the record for the third biggest opening for a horror film, along with the No. 1 slot at the box office for an original horror movie.
Given the success of Peele’s directorial debut, Get Out, it’s only expected that Us opened in the same fashion. In April 2017, the Oscar-winning movie achieved the highest-grossing debut for a feature-length film based on an original screenplay — a title that previously belonged to the ‘90s classic, The Blair Witch Project.
With Us, Peele has obviously created another iconic hit. The film, which stars Lupita Nyong'o and Winston Duke, tells the story of a family whose vacation soon turns nightmarish when they meet (and are tormented by) their frightening doppelgängers. Like Get Out, Us is more than just a horror movie — it dives into social commentary, unveiling the real terrors. “I think one of the reasons this movie has an expansiveness is because ‘us’ is subjective,” Peele said in an interview with NPR. “Everybody thinks of the term ‘us’ in different ways — it can be ‘us’ the family, ‘us’ the town, ‘us’ the country, ‘us’ humanity. I think in the simplest form, the very nature of ‘us’ means there is a ‘them,’ right? So that is what this movie is about to me, is that: Whatever your ‘us’ is, we turn ‘them’ into the enemy — and maybe ‘we’ are our own worst enemy.”
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